Despot: a dictator-like ruler Docile: easily controlled; very tame/obedient
Egalitarianism: equality Edicts: laws/orders Envoy: an official representative, like an ambassador Excommunication: process where the Church does not allow one to receive sacraments
Heresy: a great sin/insult of religion/religious beliefs - one who commits heresy is a heretic
Laiety / Lay: Non-ordained. People who help run the church who are not a pastor/priest/nun
Manumission: Freeing a slave
Nomad: a wanderer, generally a herder Nuclear Family: the most immediate family-- parents, kids, grandparents
Papacy: the office of the Pope Pastoralism: Herding-based jobs (cows, goats, sheep) Plunder: to take, loot
Renounce: to formally end support for something
Sanction: to support, officially authorize Secular: not associated with a religion (generally associated with a government) Senility: "lost one's mind" Sinicization: To become more "Chinese" in nature or culture Syncretism: A combination of different cultural/religious elements
Despot: a dictator-like ruler
Docile: easily controlled; very tame/obedient
Egalitarianism: equality
Edicts: laws/orders
Envoy: an official representative, like an ambassador
Excommunication: process where the Church does not allow one to receive sacraments
Heresy: a great sin/insult of religion/religious beliefs - one who commits heresy is a heretic
Laiety / Lay: Non-ordained. People who help run the church who are not a pastor/priest/nun
Manumission: Freeing a slave
Nomad: a wanderer, generally a herder
Nuclear Family: the most immediate family-- parents, kids, grandparents
Papacy: the office of the Pope
Pastoralism: Herding-based jobs (cows, goats, sheep)
Plunder: to take, loot
Renounce: to formally end support for something
Sanction: to support, officially authorize
Secular: not associated with a religion (generally associated with a government)
Senility: "lost one's mind"
Sinicization: To become more "Chinese" in nature or culture
Syncretism: A combination of different cultural/religious elements
Tenets: teachings/beliefs
Vernacular: Use the language of the local people